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Prison Bankers Cash in on Captive Customers
Loaded on Dec. 3, 2014
by Daniel Wagner
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2014, page 1
Filed under:
JPay, Inc.,
Lobbying,
Money/Property,
Seizure of Prisoner Funds,
Prisoner Property,
Restitution,
Trust Accounts,
Commissary.
Location:
United States of America.
Prison Bankers Cash in on Captive Customers
by Daniel Wagner
Pat Taylor doesn’t believe in going into debt. She keeps her bills in a freezer bag under her bed, next to old photo albums, and believes in paying them on time religiously. For Taylor, living within your means is part ...
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- News in Brief
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- Oklahoma Supreme Court Remands Consolidated Sex Offender Registration Case, by Shepherd Litsey
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- Prison Bankers Cash in on Captive Customers, by Daniel Wagner
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- Agreement to Limit Solitary Confinement in New York State Prisons Applauded
- Reenergized D.C. Corrections Information Council Targets Jail and Prison Conditions, by Derek Gilna
- Education is Better than Punishment: Something We Can All Support!, by Vivian D. Nixon
- Ninth Circuit Affirms Preliminary Injunction in Challenge to California’s CASE Act
- Debtors’ Prisons Prevail in Las Vegas, Thanks to Prosecutors and Casino Markers Law, by Derek Gilna
- Former Florida Guard Accused of Workers’ Comp Fraud Dies Before Trial
- Disabled California Juvenile Detainees Entitled to Special Education Services in Jail, by Mark Wilson
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- $690,000 Settlement in HRDC Suit Over Death of Prisoner’s Baby at CCA Jail, by Derek Gilna
- New York False Imprisonment Claim Revived; Administratively-Imposed PRS Term Invalid, by Mark Wilson
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- Los Angeles County Jail Exploits Prisoners, Families with High Phone Costs
- Ethics Charge Against Former U.S. Marshal Ends in Pre-Trial Diversion, by Derek Gilna
- Texas Prison Homicides Rise Sharply in 2012, Decline in 2013
- Overtime Pay for New York Prison Guards, Nurses “Out of Control”
- Battling the Administration: An Inmate’s Guide to a Successful Lawsuit, by David J. Meister, by Gary Hunter
- California Law Denying Good Time Credits to Gang Members in SHUs Held Constitutional, by David Reutter
- $350,000 Settlement in PLN Censorship Suit Against Ventura County, California, by Derek Gilna
- Massachusetts: Sex Change Ordered for Transgender Prisoner; Court Finds that Two DOC Commissioners Lied
- Washington Ad Seg Prisoner Improperly Denied Earned Time, by Mark Wilson
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- The Best 500 Nonprofit Organizations for Prisoners and Their Families (2nd Ed.), edited by George Kayer, by Gary Hunter
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- Report Spurs Investigation of Bank of America, JPMorgan Prison Deals, by Daniel Wagner
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